NASB
"When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them."
— Matthew 21:45, NASB
“And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.”
“And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. ”
“When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.”
“When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.”
“And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.”
“And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.”
“And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.”
Jesus *said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?
"Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.
"And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.
When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.